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77 - [Atlas]. ROBERT DE VAUGONDY (Didier); DELAMARCHE (C.
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Estimate €200 - €300
Description
[Atlas]. ROBERT DE VAUGONDY (Didier); DELAMARCHE (C.-F.). A New Portable Atlas Intended Primarily for the Education of Young People, based on the *Géographie Moderne* by the late Abbé Delacroix. Paris: Delamarche, [between 1790 and 1806]. Quarto, contemporary fawn half-basane, plain spine (binding very worn, gap at the tail of the spine, slight browning). Atlas comprising 9 pages and 52 plates of engraved and coloured maps. The title page appears to be one of the earliest (circa 1790?) of this atlas, which was reprinted until 1820; the most recent dated maps are from 1806. Some maps have been extensively annotated in the margins, in ink, both in the margins and on the reverse. Included: - Map of the French Empire divided into departments. Paris, Delamarche, [c. 1805?]. Copperplate engraving, coloured boundaries, approx. 48 x 55 cm. (creases, water stains).
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